Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S0E03) “If you ask them first, 90% of them will say ‘No.’ But hey, once it’s up there…” — Belle Ahh, the pitfalls of being a London sign girl. I’ll have to remember Belle’s trick...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Casting, Reality-Free Remember back in February when we told you that Edie Falco was signed for a new dark situation comedy from Showtime about a harried nurse? Well, they’ve started filming the show in New York and given it a tentative title, Nurse Jackie. What’s...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Casting, Reality-Free I don’t know how they keep doing it; AMC that is. Not only have they brought us stellar series (Mad Men) after stellar series (Breaking Bad), but now they’ve managed to snag two big-time Hollywood names...

Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, Programming, OpEd, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Children So, whether you’re a High School Musical fan and whether you habitable in New York, New Jersey, or California, you’re in luck. To promote the new reality series, High School Musical: Get...

Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Documentary Spike TV has a new cop show called Real Vice Cops Uncut. The show, which is taped in Memphis and Orlando, will rides along with real police officers involved in the world of narcotics, prostitution and gambling. It will be about undercover...

Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free Here’s who’s on the late night shows tonight. Charlie Rose: Salman Rushdie The Daily Show: Steve Carell (repeat) The Colbert Report: Bishop N.T. Wright (repeat) The Late Show with David Letterman: Julia...

Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has two new episodes of The Bachelorette, followed by a new episode of The Mole. NBC has a new American Gladiators, soon after a new, two hour Nashville Star. USA has the U.S. Olympic Trials at 8, next a new Monday Night RAW....

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free Jason Schwartzman is officially coming to HBO. The actor will play the lead in Bored to Death, a new comedy from the cable network. Schwartzman has been cast as Jonathan, a struggling writer in that thirties who has a drinking problem....

Filed under: Industry, Casting, Reality-Free Rod Lurie is no stranger to writing strong female characters. In film, he wrote and directed The Contender, with Joan Allen as a woman who was being considered for the Vice Presidency of the United States. Then with Commander in Chief on ABC, he made Geena...

Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free Fans of the nearly late, definitely great Battlestar Galactica by at Sci Fi can keep their hopes alive that the series may return in the style of those oft-rumored movies. On June 27, Grace Park said that rumors of a Battlestar Galactica...

Filed under: Industry, Programming, OpEd, Reality-Free Variety has an interesting scoop up about the age demographics of assured TV shows. It seems that the average age of the television viewer has risen to the age of 50, external of the key demographic of 18 to 49. The oldest-skewing shows are NBC’s...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming Upon seeing the headline that TNT is going to be doing a new version of the UK series Cracker, I suspect I had the same reaction as many of you: Wasn’t that show already remade for U.S. audiences? Yes, it was. It happened in 1997 and starred...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, OpEd, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free The casts are coming together for Fox’s new pilots Virtuality and Inseparable. Malik Yoba, who was on Girlfriends, and Warren Kole, who has arised briefly on CSI: Miami and 24, have...

Filed under: OpEd, Reality-Free, Gossip Girl Vanity Fair has done a piece on Gossip Girl profiling the likes and dislikes of its young Hollywood starlets. Amanda Seyfried, who’s starring in the upcoming film Mamma Mia! with Meryl Streep, wants to work with Michael Caine on day. When asked whether...

Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Video, Reality-Free The next Futurama direct-to-DVD film has a title. According to an interview with Futurama producer David X. Cohen, the subtitle of the film will be Bender’s Game. It’s a pun on the classic sci-fi novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. A...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free It looks like NBC thinks they have something worth giving a little more love to. Already airing in the cushy post-The Office slot when it premieres October 9th, now NBC has upped the order to thirteen on Molly Shannon and Selma Blair’s...

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Early Looks, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free I didn’t watch the first season of Saving Grace, but by the weekend, I had an opportunity to screen the moment season premiere, titled ‘Have a Seat, Earl.’ The show is gritty and heartbreaking, and it’s...

Filed under: The Office, Casting, Reality-Free In final season’s finale of The Office, sparks flew amidst Michael Scott and Toby’s HR replacement Holly. Amy Ryan, seen for five seasons on The Wire, brought a new dynamic to the show as Holly with her interactions with Steve Carell’s...

Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S01E05) It was the best of In Plain Sight, it was the less than best of In Plain Sight. For starters, the only carry-over from the preceding episode was Marshall’s arm in a sling. Hey, what about his nearly dying and Mary’s emotional breakdown in...